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@ahideousthing.bsky.social

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So my boss doesn't fire me, all views are my own. An absurd lefty A big old goth A silly nerd A fox liberating food from a fridge AI sucks and is bad (he/him) (Profile pic is a fox raiding a fridge)

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a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I enjoyed scumming up the Hostile universe a little with CY Borg's banned technology (body mods, nano-tech etc.) and Death in Space's cosmic horror. As a metaphor, imagine a post-punk band containing two members of Joy Division, one person from Sigue Sigue Sputnik, and Andrew Eldritch in his hat.

Two members of Joy Division in their shirts having a laugh

Sigue Sigue Sputnik, in all their "glory"

Andrew Eldritch in his hat.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The thing from The Thing: a truly awful amalgam of human, dogs and weird monster. It's up to no good.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cthulhu turns up?

The cover of the tabletop role-playing game adventure, Musketeers versus Cthulhu: three musketeers stand at the foot of a rather tentacley M'Lady.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@morkticia.bsky.social I received The Amethyst Alcove. I have covered the zine and map in clear plastic book cover stuff (both sides of the map: no joke). The texts wil never die. The PCs will.

Is that Malcolm McDowell holding a cool TTRPG zine (The Amethyst Alcove) and its map? They've been covered in plastic book cover stuff. They are glorious. The guy in the silly hat may or may not be glorious, depending on the viewer.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(I'm inexpertly painting a War Wolf by proxywargamingaus.com at the moment. Very enjoyable)

A War Wolf Assault Beast for the wargame, Trench Crusade, made by ausproxygamingaus.com
It's a big, horrible werewolf with a circular saw for a face, spiky armour and dangling chains. It'll getcha, I'm afraid)

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A photo of a mirror in a bathroom: no one is shown in its reflection,
(Bright cream room, large oval mirror above a marble-ish sink, potted plants on the mantle to the right, towel on the left. In the reflection: a closed white door and three towel racks)

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here are a few more

Close in pic of the trench and some of its denizens: a Heretic Legion warband in controversial green colours

Really close in: you can see the Chorister's lack of head. I chose to give him lots of dried blood on his upper body, because I like stuff like that. What do you think his name is/was. Hank? Stu?

A side-on view of the trench. A couple of armed forces could have a truly awful time there for as long as they wanted

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a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I used some pouring medium stuff for the first time today: I added some flooded shellholes to a 3' by 2' trench board.

Moody and mysterious, as if light by a descending flare

Different lighting: I think the colours look nice in this one. Sorry to blow my own horn.
It reminds me of the cover art for the first God Machine album.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Steerpike from Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake's drawing of his character, Steerpike. He's a slim young man with short, floppy hair. He looks to one side: slyly? Resentfully?
Is that a bow tie that he's wearing? I never imagined him with a natty bow tie.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I had utterly forgotten that I had backed the physical version of this: an ace surprise!

A tired but noble man of a certain age smiles and gives a thumbs-up while holding a copy of the skirmish wargame, Legitimate Salvage. This is peak multi-tasking. I look like Tony Blair here, which is not my goal.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

That might do it, I think.

A hand-made model bunker: I've painted it with a million layers, and a thousand highlights.

It looks bombed-out and slightly repaired: I've stuck "corrugated metal" as a makeshift fix here and there.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A bit of progress/impatience

Another blurry photo of a home-made bit of model terrain: a ruined bunker made from polystyrene. It has had a bit of work done (waist-high walls to the flanks and centre) at the front.

A slightly different view: a bit more top-down. It's rather indistinct, but perhaps it can be seen that I have added a ruined pillar in the "hall" of the bunker, and more waist-high walls adding partial cover near the side entrances/exits.

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a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I have painted it in a mix of acrylic paint, (microwaved) dirt, incense ash, and PVA glue.

A blurry picture of a self-made, polystyrene, miniature, model, ruined bunker. Painted grey.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I have started making a ruined li'l bunker. Limited for size by the size of my polystyrene sheets. I used my rock texture roller. It'll do, when painted, as a bit of wargaming terrain. Fun to make, most importantly.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Slightly altered trench set-up.

A dirty looking wargaming table: there's a Trench Crusade artillery witch upto her usual hijinks (throwing bombs from Hell at people)

Another bit of the table: you can see a few bits of Temu terrain and a li'l Goetic Warlock sneaking around.

A lengthways view of the table: an L-shaped trench system surrounding a bit of no-man's land. Colourful cut-outs are in evidence.

Ooh! It's lit as if a flare is falling from the sky, illuminating the scene of desperate struggle below. (You throw that bomb, Artillery Witch! Yeah!)

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

If you'd like to, show me a picture that captures your essence

Me wearing a Soviet-era Jericho hat: a black felt hat with a big, red, five-pointed star on the front. It has a tall and silly pointed bit on top.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Dead Head with Dennis Lawson: absolute nightmare fuel for a young me.

The cover of the DVD version of mid-80s TV show, Dead Head. The cover is appropriately bleak, dark, and dominated by black and red. It was a ghastly show if my memory is correct.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A middle-aged white guy wearing an absurd "Jericho" hat: a tall, black, felt hat with a weird spikey peal, and a great big five-pointed red star on the front. Satanic? Soviet? (Soviet)

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a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I did not play; instead, I made moire terrain and stuff: trench-ladders and duckboards, and a bombed-out two-storey building-front.

A polystyrene model building: a two-storey, bombed-out front

The rear of the model: it both looks okay and clearly styrofoamy

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We seem to have chosen very similar looks for our artillery witches. Mine looks like a bruise.

Notice the honest dirt (paint) under my fingernails: man of the soil!

The two pics show a man (me) holding a painted artillery witch mini from Trench Crusade: she looks like a bruise.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Made the centre higher up, added more trees and paint/mod podge:

More home-made WW1 simulation

Three-quarter view of the trenchy game-table: looks cool tbh

Side view: colours and textures very flattened for some reason. No-man's land is the right height though.

Thanks to the few UK/Aus/US wargaming youtubers who inspired my trench squares.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is my sign. What is yours, other folks?

A sign declaring the degree to which I am in danger of death (I am middle-aged)

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Yes, I know my trenches are too high/my no-man's land is too low, but tough banana.

Home-made terrain of trenches flanking no-man's land.

Trenches reinforced here and there with corrugated iron; in places it lies shredded by artillery

Side-on view. The trenches should be lower down, yes, yes, I know. I'll get some free polystyrene from The Good Guys on Monday to raise up the central section (no-man's land)

"Iso-metric view" of the narrow battlefield. I believe certain sections of opposing WW1 trench systems might have been almost this close to each other. Maybe, almost. It'd be about 30 metres here perhaps.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I hope he's as unhappy as he looks: don't think I've ever hated anyone more.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Washes applied: thanks to wife for pics

The same li'l WW1 diorama as before but noticeably less brightly-green and more mud-begrimed-looking.

Zoomed out side view

Diagonal view

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The fifth (pretty similar to the first and third tbh, but a bit more zoomed in maybe)

The last pic: the maker's doing his best. More to be pitied than despised, I'd say.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The fourth

Top down: nice work with the shadows IMO. Is a flare going off and illuminating the scene? Or is another dawn breaking over the world?

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The third

Another view, slightly zoomed out: dining room chairs and table by Ikea.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The second

A side view of the same scene: he's made a collage of photos of Ypres in 1917 as a backdrop, bless him.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Okay, folks. It's five pics. Here is the first.

Photos of a hobby/wargaming table: home-made trench warfare terrain. "Grass paper" as the base: lots of fake mud glued on with spray glue. Charred twigs to represent shell-burst tree trunks.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Oddly reminiscent of Max Ernst's weird cyclops

A painting by Max Ernst: behind an oddly vibrantly-coloured, pastoral foreground, in which a naked female form can be seen reclining, a massive, looming, and ominously bland face lurks in a ghastly fashion. A huge cyclops. Ugh

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A rather dark and out-of-focus picture of a self-made gaming tabe for a skirmish wargame: it resembles a muddied up field with blasted tree trunks and two trenches dug at the east and west edges. A rather hilly no man's land in the middle.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone, if you like.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Back up offered by Captain Communism

A man wearing a Soviet-era Jericho hat: an absurd, pointy hat in black felt with red piping and a red five-pointed star.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Whereas a good chunk of my actual personality is this fellow:

Sir Didymus, an utterly marvellous character from the film, Labyrinth. He's an eye-patch wearing, moustache-sporting knight, also a fox. (Others say a fox-terrier, exposing themselves to well-deserved scorn) Rides an old English Sheepdog called Ambosius.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I am here!

A white, plastic box with li'l drawers (ten of them: two rows of five). The drawers have paper miniatures in them.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I that the same cover as Mothership adventure, The Heart of Tiberius?

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@hodagrpg.bsky.social Here's an A5 format one I cooked up with a bit of Shift-Command-4 magic:

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@hodagrpg.bsky.social Here are the insides.

The interiors of the three aforementioned home-printed Hodag zines, Beneath the Dungeon Floor!

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@hodagrpg.bsky.social Here are the covers of 3 in the Tall and Slim format.

The covers of three homemade versions of Hodag's zine game Beneath the Dungeon Floor! All very colourful and shiny.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Share a preacher, a priest or a nun, if you like.

a middle-aged white man wearing an outrageous black and red Jericho Hat with a five-pointed star on it.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A painting of Proudhon, the father of Anarchism.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Louis-Antoine de Saint Juste, the Archangel of Terror

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a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Ohio de gozaimasu

The flag of the State of Ohio

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a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Ohayo gozaimasu

a picture of the morning

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a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Here's my li'l booklet version of #3

A homemade, home-printed version of MeatCastle GamesWare's Annual #3: extremely pink

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Meatcastle Gameware Annual #3

An extremely pink, hand-made booklet of Annual #3 by Meatcastle Gameware

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a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The Craft #lostpages

Two home-made booklets: Wonder & Wickedness and Marvels & Malisons. The original books are published by Lost Pages; these versions were made by me. Made with lots of screenshots, coloured paper and card, and hand-sewing to hold it all together.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains, if you like.

The cover of the album, Amber, by Autechre: a beautiful and bizarre landscape of pinkish-white mineral hills.

a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

If you'd like to, please describe your Bluesky account in one image.

The pic I use for everything: British or Commonwealth soldiers having a terrible time in Ypres in 1917 among the blasted trees, mud, and flooded shell craters.